House Batteries Disconnect Switch & Inverter
Hi folks. I just purchased a new Newmar gasser, and as I was getting familiarized with the coach, I discovered the 1,200 watt Xantrex inverter will come on when the batteries are disconnected at the k...
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With kilowatt or larger (i'm not sure of the cut off) inverters and inverter/chargers the STANDARD way of hooking them up is the following
Inverter--Batteries---T--Switch--Housew
The T (Tap) is for thigns that need to be powered FULL time no cut off.
Same for Inverter/Chargers.
WHY 1500 watts is about 150 amps draw from the batteries (NOTE I know that is not accurate but.. Well it is downright close by the time you figure in conversion loss and so on it's amazingly close up to about 1000 watts and not far off above that) and that is a bit hard on the Cut off switch.
Also the inverter needs to be as close as is physically possible to keep the very expensive per foot big 00 ga cables short.
Inverter--Batteries---T--Switch--Housew
The T (Tap) is for thigns that need to be powered FULL time no cut off.
Same for Inverter/Chargers.
WHY 1500 watts is about 150 amps draw from the batteries (NOTE I know that is not accurate but.. Well it is downright close by the time you figure in conversion loss and so on it's amazingly close up to about 1000 watts and not far off above that) and that is a bit hard on the Cut off switch.
Also the inverter needs to be as close as is physically possible to keep the very expensive per foot big 00 ga cables short.
